Nice comment Andy. I look forward to people's views on your specific
and very good examples.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Andrew Stewart
<a...@universalsprout.com> wrote:
> Accessibility does matter, but I do think that many people on this list do
> get too close to the "accessibility at all cost" point of view.
>
> Lets take the example of google finance
> http://www.google.com/finance?q=gbpaud quite a cool site using flash and js
> to navigate quite a large amount of data (make sure you expand the slider at
> the bottom of the flash graph to change the time scale and see how the list
> of news articles on the right changes). How could this site be modified to
> be meaningfully controlled by using the keyboard alone? I would be very
> interested to hear people's opinions on the following points:
>
> • is this site accessible? and if not, please give real examples of saying
> how it is hard for people with disabilities to use
> • how could you make it more accessible without introducing a huge amount of
> extra work for the developers and without having an adverse effect for
> non-disabled users?
>
> Whilst I think there are some silly impenetrable sites on the internet, I
> don't think web developers should really be that concerned with
> accessibility - not because it isn't worth it, but because we have hardly
> any power over what the user sees. The real people that should be
> concentrating on accessibility are people working on creating browsers and
> operating systems because they can really do something about it.
>
> Andy
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